Getting Started

How can you get started with CAREDN?

How you get started depends on what brings you to CAREDN. Are you a served agency who may benefit from the CAREDN infrastructure, or are you an amateur radio operator interested in joining the mesh and utilizing it for learning or education? This documentation intends to address each user individually.

Getting Started with CAREDN

Served Agencies

What is a served agency?

How Can a Served Agency Benefit from AREDN?

Amateur Radio Operators

What is an Amateur Radio Operator?

Why would an Amateur Radio Operator be Interested in AREDN?

General Public

If you are not one of the above, you are this. Check out how you can get involved and get active. You might also look into getting a amateur radio license (often referred to as a ham radio license). It is inexpensive and very accessible. There are more amateur radio operators in the US today than ever before. To learn more, check out these links:


Served Agencies

How can a representative of a served agency gain benefit from this highly redundant, hardened, and entirely independent RF data network?

Amateur Radio Operators

How can a ham radio operator get involved with CAREDN?

General Public

How can a member of the general public get involved with CAREDN?